Open Data/Transparency
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Newscast stories heard on the June 21, 2011, edition of In Depth with Francis Rose.
June 21, 2011 -
Lawmakers want to merge the fund with GSA\'s Office of Citizen Services. Sam Rosen-Amy, a federal fiscal policy analyst for OMB Watch, said that may lead to reduction in services.
June 17, 2011 -
The bill includes $50 million for the General Services Administration\'s Office of Citizens and Innovative Technologies.
June 16, 2011 -
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will not consider a bill aimed at better federal government transparency, according to Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif.
May 31, 2011 -
As agencies continue to work toward being more \'open and transparent,\' feds are always looking for better ways to communicate. We learn about a new option called SlideShare from the NNSA\'s Damien LaVera.
May 26, 2011 -
Dick Stapleton from HHS and Mark Pietrasanta from Aquilent join host John Gilroy to discuss best practices that federal agencies can use to engage citizens. May 24, 2011
May 24, 2011 -
In open government, dumping information on a website is useless if the users cannot quickly understand what the information means for them.
May 17, 2011 -
The White House says the order is all about transparency. But Senate Republicans say details in the draft aren\'t clear. And they\'re worried about an infringement of First Amendment rights, and how the donation information will be used at agencies.
April 29, 2011 -
The Delaware Democratic senator wrote a letter to federal CIO Vivek Kundra asking for more details about which transparency websites will continue and which will go dark. Congress reduced the E-Government Fund by 76 percent in 2011forcing some near-term decisions.
April 22, 2011 -
Congress slashed funds to open government websites. Will these cuts impact the way feds\' do their jobs?
April 18, 2011 -
Federal executives recognize that citizens are \"frustrated\" with government\'s ability to engage and service the public. We learn more from Melissa Hardt and Bryan Klopack, authors of a new study on engagement.
April 15, 2011 -
A senior Republican lawmaker is optimistic that the Obama administration\'s transparency websites can be kept online.
April 13, 2011 -
The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board says nearly everyone who\'s taken stimulus money is filing reports about how they\'re using it.
April 13, 2011 -
The agreement between the White House and Congressional leaders to fund the government through the remainder of 2011 would strip the E-Government fund of more than three quarters of its dollars. The fund, managed by the General Services Administration, pays for several of the Obama Administration\'s government transparency websites.
April 12, 2011 -
Open government proponents are calling for more transparency, and they are taking that message to the streets.
April 06, 2011
